Career Choice and Development

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6 A Contextualist Explanation of Career Richard A. Young, Ladislav Valach, Audrey Collin Virtually all theories of career choice ...

Harré, 1982), which has roots in a number of broad contextualist approaches, notably Dewey (1890/1969), Mead (1934), and Vygot- ...

208 CAREER CHOICE AND DEVELOPMENT Pepper’s four mutually exclusive world hypotheses or theoretical frameworks in Western thinkin ...

ticularly relevant. First, the goals of actions rather than their causes are emphasized. “Studying for an examination” is an act ...

Context in Career and Counseling Theory, Research, and Practice As we noted at the outset, context is well recognized in career ...

and gender, as well as family socioeconomic status. Maranda and Comeau show how various schools of sociology interpret these str ...

to us. Meaning is not always explicitly addressed in the systemic approaches just described. Brown’s values approach (Brown, 199 ...

A Contextualist Action Theory Explanation of Career The contextualist explanation of career development and counsel- ing propose ...

action is anchored in its social representation, and the context of action is manifested. Our approach to action on which our co ...

Joint Action. The term joint action refers to the action that people take together, and it too is made up of manifest behavior, ...

defined task related to a goal. The action is also informed by the group structure of the client and counselor: who will introdu ...

and social meaning, that contribute to the project. We recognize in this example that the project has social meaning derived fro ...

by themselves; if they did, they would be quite difficult to interpret. The phrase “I don’t feel like working any longer” can be ...

A CONTEXTUALIST EXPLANATION OF CAREER 219 Interpretation and Narrative Interpretationrefers to the process by which people make ...